Jason Hickey

THE ENSEMBLE JUKEBOX,
A PLATFORM FOR HIGH-QUALITY DISTRIBUTED AUDIO

For the last several months, the halls of Cornell computer science department have been alive with the sounds of music.  About 10 users have participated in the local deployment of a distributed audio server called the Ensemble Jukebox (EJB).  EJB allows users to play CD quality audio from CDROM drives of machines anywhere on the network.Users can also exchange audio data with any other server in the system.  Currently there are over 20 Gbytes of audio data available on Windows and Unix platforms, and this will grow as we continue to add users to the system.

We view EJB as a testbed for exploring issues like 1) using group membership systems for distributed real-time communication, 2) developing flexible distributed security architectures for protecting intellectual property, and 3) using high-level programming languages like ML to design reliable high-performance systems.  There are many problems that remain open, ranging from the scalability of the group membership model to the development of a unified logical user interface.  During this seminar, I'll be discussing these issues and more, and I will give a system demonstration.

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